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My
name is Patrick A Rogers and I've been travelling in India for much of the last
decade. As you can probably tell from the title of my page, I'm doing a bunch
of different crazy stuff here...so bear with me! (That picture above, by the way, is of a living root bridge and waterfall in India).

I'm photographing and
documenting living root bridges in Northeast India.

I'm writing travel
literature.

And I'm writing
fiction.

My subscribers will have the opportunity to download my new
book about exploring Northeast India called Peculiar
Encounters: More Travels in the Khasi Hills, as
well as to get access to new content from my upcoming projects and update videos from India.

What is a Living Root Bridge? Quoting from my
project's website: "In the steep, rain-lashed hills of Northeast India,
the inhabitants of isolated villages have devised a practical, beautiful,
sustainable, and utterly unique way of crossing monsoon-swelled streams and
rivers. Where bridges made from bamboo or wood would rot and be easily swept
away, and structures made from steel or concrete would be expensive, requiring
outside investment while also rusting quickly and being easily damaged, the
villagers opted instead to create living, self-sustaining bridges from the
growing roots of the ficus elastica species of fig tree.

These bridges are some of the world’s most
unique architecture. They are practical, but also beautiful; they cost nothing
to build, yet can render centuries of effective service; they are ancient, and
yet could provide inspiration for dealing with a multitude of 21st century
problems. No other form of architecture becomes naturally stronger over time,
but as a root bridge is composed of living elements, so long as the tree it is
a part of remains healthy, the structure will self-strengthen and continue to
do so indefinitely."

In connection with that project I'm also writing
a series of travel books about my adventures in Northeast India. The first
book, called The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills, was
released in 2017 by Westland Publishing India. I'm currently working on the
second, Peculiar Encounters: More Travels in the Khasi Hills, which will be
available here first!

And, on top of all that, I'm also writing fantasy/horror fiction, and have just released my first India -set horror fantasy book City of The Shrieking Tomb, which will be available here at the $5 tier.

Yes, these are three
disparate endeavors, but the thing that connects them is that they all have to
do with travel in India. The Living Root Bridge Project requires me to go to
the remote jungles and gorges of Meghalaya to locate, photograph, document, and
collect historical information on examples of living root bridges. My travel
writing stems directly from that, while with my fiction I've found that India
has provided a bottomless well of inspiration.

So, while it'll go into several different projects, your
support will be primarily funneled into on-the-ground expenses as I travel in
India. These including guide fees (where there are guides!), donations to local
village councils, transportation fees, a certain amount of equipment (don't
worry, I won't go nuts buying the most expensive trekker gear possible...going
into remote villages looking like a walking Cabela's catalog is a terrible
idea!), occasional hotel fees, food, etc. The aim is for most of the money raised
here to wind up being recirculated in the region's local economy.

And, seriously, $1 a month goes much further than you'd think!

Tiers

Pineapple

$1 or more per month

Download a free copy of my new travel book Peculiar Encounters: More Travels in the Khasi Hills, starting Jan 7, 2019.

My
name is Patrick A Rogers and I've been travelling in India for much of the last
decade. As you can probably tell from the title of my page, I'm doing a bunch
of different crazy stuff here...so bear with me! (That picture above, by the way, is of a living root bridge and waterfall in India).

I'm photographing and
documenting living root bridges in Northeast India.

I'm writing travel
literature.

And I'm writing
fiction.

My subscribers will have the opportunity to download my new
book about exploring Northeast India called Peculiar
Encounters: More Travels in the Khasi Hills, as
well as to get access to new content from my upcoming projects and update videos from India.

What is a Living Root Bridge? Quoting from my
project's website: "In the steep, rain-lashed hills of Northeast India,
the inhabitants of isolated villages have devised a practical, beautiful,
sustainable, and utterly unique way of crossing monsoon-swelled streams and
rivers. Where bridges made from bamboo or wood would rot and be easily swept
away, and structures made from steel or concrete would be expensive, requiring
outside investment while also rusting quickly and being easily damaged, the
villagers opted instead to create living, self-sustaining bridges from the
growing roots of the ficus elastica species of fig tree.

These bridges are some of the world’s most
unique architecture. They are practical, but also beautiful; they cost nothing
to build, yet can render centuries of effective service; they are ancient, and
yet could provide inspiration for dealing with a multitude of 21st century
problems. No other form of architecture becomes naturally stronger over time,
but as a root bridge is composed of living elements, so long as the tree it is
a part of remains healthy, the structure will self-strengthen and continue to
do so indefinitely."

In connection with that project I'm also writing
a series of travel books about my adventures in Northeast India. The first
book, called The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills, was
released in 2017 by Westland Publishing India. I'm currently working on the
second, Peculiar Encounters: More Travels in the Khasi Hills, which will be
available here first!

And, on top of all that, I'm also writing fantasy/horror fiction, and have just released my first India -set horror fantasy book City of The Shrieking Tomb, which will be available here at the $5 tier.

Yes, these are three
disparate endeavors, but the thing that connects them is that they all have to
do with travel in India. The Living Root Bridge Project requires me to go to
the remote jungles and gorges of Meghalaya to locate, photograph, document, and
collect historical information on examples of living root bridges. My travel
writing stems directly from that, while with my fiction I've found that India
has provided a bottomless well of inspiration.

So, while it'll go into several different projects, your
support will be primarily funneled into on-the-ground expenses as I travel in
India. These including guide fees (where there are guides!), donations to local
village councils, transportation fees, a certain amount of equipment (don't
worry, I won't go nuts buying the most expensive trekker gear possible...going
into remote villages looking like a walking Cabela's catalog is a terrible
idea!), occasional hotel fees, food, etc. The aim is for most of the money raised
here to wind up being recirculated in the region's local economy.

And, seriously, $1 a month goes much further than you'd think!

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Tiers

Pineapple

$1 or more per month

Download a free copy of my new travel book Peculiar Encounters: More Travels in the Khasi Hills, starting Jan 7, 2019.